Ancient Toad Counseling

10/25/2026

10/23/2026

Pain has many uses, to soften and open us, to teach us where we were blind, to show us what matters. I don’t know what gift is there for you in this particular darkness, but I have seen darkness unfold into the best of who we are many times. It can also destroy us and make us smaller. The difference is how we sit with it. And the community that holds it with us

10/21/2026

Also, maybe this is the best it could have been. We seem far more inclined down the path of what we might have done wrong than how much better it could be. That robs us of clear seeing. It clouds a sense of our accomplishment. And it seems based on the illusion that there was a path without suffering where everyone played the part you thought they should and you had that nice movie life. Even the movie people don’t have the movie life. What if this is a great place to have arrived? Lots of other places to go, sure, but good here now